ABSTRACT

Using ethnographic vignettes from the development of simulations for architectural design and spatial planning in university contexts, this article discusses how the material, embodied, and tacit dimensions of developing and doing research with simulations can be opened up to analysis. We ask how (in)visibility comes to matter in simulations and how it is made and unmade in different situations. In particular, we explore how specific enactments of the things that are simulated and the practices involved in producing and handling them are rendered (in)visible through the simulation process. We argue that focusing on the politics of (in)visibility in making simulations can render power relations underpinning architectural and spatial planning practices more apparent.

摘要

本文利用大学环境中建筑设计和空间规划模拟开发的民族志小插曲，讨论了如何对模拟开发和研究的材料、体现和隐性维度进行分析。我们询问可见性（不可见性）在模拟中如何变得重要，以及它在不同情况下是如何产生和消失的。特别是，我们探讨了如何通过模拟过程使模拟事物的具体制定以及生产和处理它们所涉及的实践变得可见。我们认为，在进行模拟时关注可见性（不可见性）的政治可以使支撑建筑和空间规划实践的权力关系更加明显。